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The Coral Cube Redux (now with PICTURES!)
Someone asked me to send them some pics of my corals for comparison purposes and I realized... I haven't ever put a damn picture of my tank on here!
So, here it is in all it's glory... This tank was started a little over a year ago after making a swap from my old 40G that had sprung a leak. Unfortunately, during the swap I had a crash and lost all but a few frags and mini colonies. All the colonies you see below were grown from ~1" frags that I was able to rescue off the dying colonies, with the exception of the green milli, which had a head start at 3.5". Some specs: - 50 gallon cube (24"x24"x20") with a Beananimal overflow into a 15 gallon sump - Vertex IN-100 skimmer - Giesemann Inifiniti 250W halide with 4x24W T5's (KZ Super Blue) - Tunze ATO tops off with kalkwasser - VSV dosing + MB7 daily, which let's me... - Overfeed the tank like crazy Livestock: - Waaaaaay too many corals - Potter's Wrasse - Randall's Anthias - Coral Beauty - Unidentified combtooth blenny (indian? chestnut?) Forgive the iPhone FTS... I'll get a better pic one day Left Side: Some top down coral pics... And some pics of the tank being built: |
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Lol. All that coral and I'm staring at the last pic of a empty tank haha. I really dig the tank
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Awesome pics man... Love the zoa/paly garden
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VSV Solution
Just curious on the ratio of your VSV solution and how much and how often you are dosing.
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Thanks Steve. I'm glad you posted the FTS for all of us. I am very impressed with the colors you are getting compared to me, but I don't have a sand bed. I assume that I'm not giving my bacteria a chance to colonize.
What salt mix do you use? Can you share your params? I am very impressed with the deep purple/blues. Also, are you wet skimming or dry skimming? Last edited by ChizerBunoi; 11-28-2012 at 01:57 PM. |
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looks rad man! Love that zoa garden and your potter's wrasse!
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Loving it! That zoa garden is the best, always nice to see multiple morphs grown together!
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That purple acro, by the way, is the fastest growing coral I've ever seen. You can practically watch it grow. I measured one tip to grow 1.5 cm in just under 2 weeks! |
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I dose daily. I used to split it up into two doses, morning and afternoon, but my schedule is too erratic for that. I just douses in the morning before work. Right now I am dosing ~1.2 ml/ daily but I've got a pretty good feel for it now and will sometimes bump it up if I do a heavy feeding. In the beginning I used SonnyX's Vodka+MB7 guide as my reference. Follow those instructions to a T when you are first starting. |
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